■ Central Florida school districts cancel student field trips that involve air travel.

Central Florida school districts have canceled student field trips that involve air travel because of fears of the new coronavirus, with the ban on flights in effect through the end of the school year.

The Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia county school districts all announced Tuesday the immediate suspension of the trips that needed air travel.

It was not immediately clear how many student trips would be canceled.

But in Lake County, East Ridge High School students scheduled to attend the DECA International Career Development Conference in Nashville in late April will not be able to fly but could make other plans to get to Tennessee, said Sherri Owens, a spokeswoman for the Lake school district.

That conference is expected to draw about 20,000 high school students, according to that group’s website.

In Orange County, student trips involving flights to Boston for students from East River High School, to New York for students from Boone High School and to Washington, D.C. for students from Boone and Oak Ridge High School, are among those that cannot go as planned, said spokeswoman Lorena Arias.

But the student groups could look for alternative travel plans, she said.

The school districts’ decision came after a morning phone call with Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, who local officials said made a “strong recommendation” to curb student air travel. The joint press release from all the local districts also noted that young people are not at high risk of contracting COVID-19 — the disease resulting from the new coronavirus.